Vaisala Observation Display - Manual (Page 9)

Chapter 2 __________________________________________________________ Product Overview
CHAPTER 2
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
This chapter gives an overview of the application.
Introduction
Vaisala Observation Display is a PC software application intended for
displaying and storing meteorological and environmental measurement
data. The software can be used as a weather station data display.
Software Components
The software consists of two components:
- Observation Display background service, which starts automatically
whenever the host PC is started.
- User interface application, which can be opened from the Windows
Start menu or desktop icon.
The background service is transparent to the user. It handles all automatic
tasks: communications to the AWS, passing data to the user interface
process, validating and logging incoming data, and so on.
The user interface provides possibilities to monitor and configure data
processing. Having a separate background service process guarantees that
the user does not accidentally terminate data collection process by
closing the user interface.
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